# Octave

> Octave is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/octave-fund/
- Website: https://www.octave.fund

Octave is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. A founder-centric early-stage fund investing in enterprise data opportunities.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 37% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 12% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 54% |
| Series A | 5 | 12% |
| Series B | 5 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 68% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Will Smith | General Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-smith-6 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LuminosAI | Luminos AI provides software for legal and governance teams to assess and manage AI risk. The platform supports compliance testing, evaluation workflows, and automated reporting across classical, generative, and agentic AI systems. | $7.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Springtail | Springtail is a cloud service that horizontally scales the performance of your existing PostgreSQL database. Founded in 2023, Springtail is on a mission to free developers from the complexities of managing scalable data infrastructure. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by Google's early-stage fund, Gradient. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Haus | Haus provides a marketing science platform that enables brands to conduct geo-experiments and measure the incrementality of their marketing investments. By focusing on real business outcomes rather than traditional metrics, Haus helps companies optimize their marketing spend effectively. The platform supports brands in making informed decisionsabout revenue, customer acquisition, and other key performance indicators. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Arbital Health | Arbital Health is a healthcare company that offers a third-party adjudication utility to help bolster outcomes-based healthcare contracts. | $10M | Series A | Jan 04, 2024 |  |
| Tomato.ai | Tomato AI is a developer of AI-based voice clarity software used for clearer and more efficient agent calls. The company is currently in stealth mode. | $10M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Weights & Biases | Weights & Biases offers performance visualization tools for machine learning. It helps companies turn deep learning research projects into deployed software by helping teams track their models, visualize model performance, and easily automate training and improving models. | $50M |  | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Datasaur | Datasaur develops productive tools that design for data labelling needs. It enables users to assign multiple teammates to the same projects and use its specialized review tool to identify where they disagree. Also, its built-in intelligence catches costly errors. | $4M | Seed | Aug 03, 2023 |  |
| axodotdev | The devtool company for devtool companies. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| SheetRocks | SheetRocks is building a new spreadsheet focused on performance and extensibility. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Grafbase | Grafbase provides secure self-hosted deployment options, unmatched query speed, advanced governance, and unified data access for reliable, enterprise-grade API management. Grafbase was founded in 2021 and is located at San Francisco, California. | $5M | Seed | Oct 25, 2022 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Octave invest in?

Octave invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Octave?

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### Who are the partners at Octave?

The team at Octave includes Will Smith (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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